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Show CHAPTER FIVE Fig. 98. Mohave Indians, Big Colorado River, N.M. Lithograph based on a drawing by Richard H. Kern. Lorenzo Sitgreaves, Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers (Washington, D.C, 1853). falling over it. Their hair is worn shorter than the men's and some have their chins tattooed. They are very well developed, too. For two days after their first encounter with Mohaves on the morning of November 7, relations between the two groups remained amicable. Some Mohaves served as guides, and others followed the strangers down the river, gathering in their camp in the evenings to trade. On November 9, Kern was awakened about four o'clock in the morning, by a light rain. He rose, washed, and started to tie up his bedroll, when he heard Dr. Woodhouse yell, "Look out they are throwing their arrows in here, for I have one in my leg." Kern and other Americans went for their guns and returned the fire until the Mohaves stopped. "On returning to finish tying my bed," Kern laconically notes in his diary, "I found an arrow in it." Kern conjectured that the Mohaves were angry because they had been for- 178 |
